Oh, damn, I recall that motherfucker now that I look at the picture. I was a kid back then and had no context of it being spyware.

I stand corrected in my original comment.

> In 2002, an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labeled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a browser toolbar, and serving advertisements.

Yeah, so not much different from modern Big Tech, lol.